The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works (Penguin Classics) torrent

Two books by the same anonymous author:

The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works (Clifton Wolters, trans.)(Penguin Classics, 1961, revised 1978). 232 pages.

A Study of Wisdom: Three Tracts by the Author of The Cloud of Unknowing (Clifton Wolters, trans.)(Fairacres, 1980). 50 pages.

Both are new scans. Searchable pdf (clearscan) with contents in bookmarks, accurate pagination and metadata, etc.


description of The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works:

At a time when the whole of Western Europe was in the grip of the Black Death and the Hundred Years War there was a great flourishing of spiritual works. The Cloud of Unknowing is part of this tradition and although the exact identity of its author remains obscure, he was probably an English country patron of the late fourteenth century. The main theme of this book is that God cannot be reached by human intellect but only by a love that can pierce the 'cloud of unknowing.'

This edition contains three other works by the same author - The Epistle of Privy Counsel, Dionysius' Mystical Teaching (Dionise Hid Divinite) and The Epistle of Prayer - which illuminate further the close relationship between medieval spirituality and mysticism.

description of The Study of Wisdom:

This short book consists of those works by the Cloud author that would not fit in the Clifton Wolters edition of The Cloud of Unknowing issued by Penguin.

Note: The Wolters translation is now out of print and has been replaced by Penguin with a new translation by A.C. Spearing.

For another great classic of medieval English mysticism published by Penguin see this:

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/8269545/Julian_of_Norwich_-_Revelations_of_Divine_Love_(pdf)